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Jake is loving towards his daughters, though he's often vulnerable to being taken advantage of - especially financially. As a result, he will often let Helen take the lead and simply attempt to back her up, though this often goes wrong when he's not been paying attention. In "Quinn the Brain" he initially complained he wasn't ever allowed to be the lead parent, and then, when he proved unable to navigate his daughter's extortions, threw his wallet at them and yelled "damn it, Helen, I told you I was no good at this parent crap!".
He manages to blot out most of Quinn & Daria's conflicts or problems the girls are showing, mainly for his own health. "[[My Night at Daria's]]" showed that he was incapable of handling the very ''concept'' of his daughters having sex, freaking out and running off at the very sight of Daria during that episode. He may wonder why Quinn never introduced him to any of her friends ("[[Daria Dance Part]]") but Helen has no such confusion...
Despite Jake's neurotic behavior, there have been periods where he has true insight into the lives of his children. During "Boxing Daria," he explains to Daria that while she was a difficult child to deal with due to her reclusive and jaded behavior, he and Helen understood and accepted that someone as bright as she was not going to be like everyone else. This, of course, flies in the face of their many attempts (primarily Helen's) to get Daria to be like everyone else. In the flashbacks in that episode, notably, he identifies the young Daria "doesn't ''want'' to fit in".
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